Our friend John Van Stry is suing a pirate site and the web host for offering free downloads of his books, violating copyright.
He’s tried all the other legal means, including takedown notices, registered letters, etc. and has been ignored, so he’s going after them in court, which is not cheap.
The two behind this are truly scumbags, and deserve to be behind bars at the least. If you’ve got a few spare bucks, I know John would appreciate the help, as this suit will probably run him $30-40,000 JUST to get them into court. And John’s writing IS his sole income, so he’s deadly serious about this, as they have quite a few of his books up, which is taking money out of his pocket.
Well, it appears they last two days of posts about Slow Joe have once again brought the ire of the @#$@%(* spamholes…
Normally, I get 2-4 a day… 49 on Tuesday, and 130 yesterday…
I’d love to know who points the scammers at bloggers who are independent or conservative when they blog something that the whackos on the left disagree with…
Between the dick ads, pron ads, and crap like this-
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At least this one was in Engrish, I also had Kanji, Russian, probably Chinese, and at least one in Arabic. And before you ask, I didn’t try to translate them, probably full of malware.
ELEVEN @$#%! pages of that crap, it took about 20 minutes to clean out the spam box.
If this is where Slow Joe learned his ‘technique’…
And old Humor truly does beat today’s politics…
Don Meredith, Dallas Cowboys Quarterback once said: “Coach Tom Landry is such a perfectionist that if he was married to Raquel Welch, he would expect her to cook.”
Harry Neale, professional hockey coach: “Last year we couldn’t win at home and we were losing on the road. My failure as a coach was that I couldn’t think of anyplace else to play.”
Reggie Jackson commenting on Tom Seaver: “Blind people come to the ballpark just to listen to him pitch.”
Doug Sanders, professional golfer: “I’m working as hard as I can to get my life and my cash to run out at the same time. If I can just die after lunch Tuesday, everything will be perfect.”
Mickey Lolich, Detroit Tigers pitcher: “All the fat guys watch me and say to their wives, ‘See, there’s a fat guy doing okay. Bring me another beer.'”
Tommy LaSorda , L A Dodgers manager: “I found out that it’s not good to talk about my troubles. Eighty percent of the people who hear them don’t care and the other twenty percent are glad I’m having them.”
E.J. Holub, Kansas City Chiefs linebacker regarding his 12 knee operations: “My knees look like they lost a knife fight with a midget.”
Vic Braden, tennis instructor: “My theory is that if you buy an ice-cream cone and make it hit your mouth, you can learn to play tennis. If you stick it on your forehead, your chances aren’t as good.”
Walt Garrison, Dallas Cowboys fullback when asked if Tom Landry ever smiles: “I don’t know. I only played there for nine years.”
John Breen, Houston Oilers: “We were tipping off our plays. Whenever we broke from the huddle, three backs were laughing and one was pale as a ghost.”
Bum Phillips, New Orleans Saints, after viewing a lopsided loss to the Atlanta Falcons:”The film looks suspiciously like the game itself.”
Al Hrabosky, major league relief pitcher: “When I’m on the road, my greatest ambition is to get a standing boo.”
Paul Horning, Green Bay Packers running back on why his marriage ceremony was before noon: “Because if it didn’t work out, I didn’t want to blow the whole day.”
Lou Holtz , Arkansas football coach: “I have a lifetime contract. That means I can’t be fired during the third quarter if we’re ahead and moving the ball.”
Knute Rockne, when asked why Notre Dame had lost a game: “I won’t know until my barber tells me on Monday.”
Bill Walton, Portland Trail Blazers: “I learned a long time ago that ‘minor surgery’ is when they do the operation on someone else, not you.”
George MacIntyre, Vanderbilt football coach surveying the team roster that included 26 freshmen and 25 sophomores: “Our biggest concern this season will be diaper rash.”
Rick Venturi, Northwestern football coach: “The only difference between me and General Custer is that I have to watch the films on Sunday.”
And you thought Yogi was the only one whose mind worked this way.
Joe Biden is in the news again. Yes, he probably wants to be president. This time, however, he is in the news because of another well-timed allegation about his behavior which may keep him out of the race altogether.
Kavanaugh got buried under questionable ‘allegations’, Trump is still being dogged about ‘affairs’ and other allegations.
Yet here is Joe Biden, Creepy Uncle Joe, ‘known’ and on video multiple times for his behavior toward women, being ‘handsy’ among other things, including swimming nude in front of the female USSS agents who were his protection detail multiple times. And now a credible accuser comes forward, and the Dems aren’t calling for his immediate ouster, they are saying it’s just him, that’s the way he is, etc…
Apparently Pelosi was asked if this should disqualify him and she said-
“I don’t think that this disqualifies him from being president,” she said while walking to the House chamber. “Not at all.”
There are eight remaining Apollo astronauts. At the 115th Explorers Club Annual Dinner March 16, held in New York City, they were photographed by Felix Kunze.
You can quickly pick out Buzz Aldrin… Just sayin’
The only man between here and the moon capable of pulling off a rocket ship patterned suit, four gold rings, American flag socks, and a double watch combo is Buzz Aldrin, 89.
Aldrin has always been ‘out there’ so to speak, and even age hasn’t changed that… There was apparently some hate and discontent between Aldrin and Armstrong over who would be the first to step on the moon, but I wonder if that was more ‘others’ advocating than him doing it. His bio is HERE, and well worth reading.
I was asked to provide a list of books in sequence order for the two series, so here they are…
The Grey Man series-
The Grey Man- Vignettes
The Grey Man- Payback
The Grey Man- Changes
The Grey Man- Partners
The Grey Man- Twilight
The Grey Man- Generations Novella, Kindle only, 30 years in the future
The Rimworld Series-
Rimworld- Stranded Short story, Kindle only precursor to Into the Green
Rimworld- Into the Green
Rimworld- Militia Up
Rimworld- JACENovella, Kindle only, backstory from Into the Green
Anthology Collected by JL Curtis
Calexit- The Anthology
The Morning the Earth Shook Novella, originally written for another anthology that never came to be, this novella actually happens after the novella in Calexit Anthology.
And I also have a zombie short story in Whispers of the Apoc, edited by Martin Wilsey.
All of the books, short stories, and novellas can be found through my author page, HERE.
I would like to thank each of you that left those honest reviews, they are appreciated, and are the lifeblood of us starving indie writers. 50 reviews gets you onto the ‘also boughts’ list with others, and 100 reviews actually start getting you some promos from Amazon.
Between Goodreads and Amazon, I’m averaging about a 4.1-4.5 average review, and I’m very happy with that! My goal is to get at least 100 reviews on each book, so if you read it, please review it. HONEST reviews please. I know that not everyone will like the books, as I don’t preach, I just try to write a good story.
Apparently Joe Average doesn’t ‘deserve’ a CCW in LA…
The Los Angeles Police Department has moved to cancel most of the few remaining concealed weapons permits in civilian hands, according to new filings in a decades-old legal case.
The ‘catch’ in this, is that it apparently ONLY applies to those who got a CCW as a result of a 1994 lawsuit against LAPD. Nothing said about all those actors, political contributors, and ‘other’ favored people…
Yet one more example of the creeping fascism of the left, and their desire to remove ALL guns from ‘unfriendly’ hands, e.g. hands they don’t control. If you think it’s bad now, if the Dems get control in 2020, stand by…
Rimworld- JACE was done to answer some of your questions about the backstory of JACE and where the Hyderabad came from. Originally a short story, it got longer because the alpha and beta readers wanted more. It’s now a 17600 word novella.
As always, click on the cover to get it
The blurb-
Roberto de Perez engineered his escape from the soul-killing drudgery of corporate leadership, to a remote research lab under an assumed name to play with research projects, like the creation of AIs more powerful than any protocol envisioned.
Freedom isn’t perfect: As a mid-level lab manager developing a brand new self-aware AI that’s actually better suited for combat shuttle control, Roberto unwittingly crosses a line with an external agency he didn’t know cared, and his own internal bureaucracy isn’t happy, either. What he doesn’t know is that there are people determined to keep him from succeeding at any cost.
What he doesn’t realize is his new AI has learned to manipulate the system all too well from watching Roberto, and everyone underestimated what it will do when its existence is threatened…
Novella 17,600 words
Hopefully y’all like it! Comments and reviews appreciated as always!
R-3350s are each fitted with three power recovery turbines (PRTs). Each shrouded PRT is turned by the exhaust of six cylinders and transfers its energy back to the main crankshaft through a fluid coupling, thereby recovering what would otherwise be wasted energy. At take-off, each PRT contributes up to 150hp, adding around 450hp per engine on takeoff. The actual exhaust stacks are only about 2 feet long, hence the unburned fuel/flames out the stacks under full power, which was 59.5 inHg and 3,400 horsepower with 115/145 gasoline. Since 115/145 is no longer available, my understanding is they have derated the engines to something in the 2800 horsepower range and lower pressures.
In this picture, the item circled in red is the actual short stack on an R-3350 installed on a Connie. The lower stack is removed for maintenance apparently…
